"Fawlty Towers" Basil the Rat (TV Episode 1979) Poster

(TV Series)

(1979)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A young upper-class pretty woman has attractive bare legs. Her fiance is angered when mistakenly thought Manuel is looking at his fiancee's legs when he was actually staring at the rat near her feet.

Violence & Gore

  • Basil asks Manuel whether General Franco had all the rats in Spain shot.
  • Polly bangs her head on a table.
  • Two gunshots are heard been fired out, but nobody gets hurt.
  • Basil knees the Major in the crotch, the expression of the Major's face is noticed.
  • Basil slaps Manuel in the face.

Profanity

  • One use of "For Christ's sake"
  • One use of 'Bleeding'
  • When the Major refers to the rat as 'vermin', Basil mishears it as 'German' and thinks that the Major's subsequent descriptions of the rat are derogatory comments about Germans.
  • "Bloody" and "bastard" once each.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Rat poison is added to a piece of veal.
  • Some drinks are featured.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Manuel is devastated when he misinterprets a cover story from Polly as saying that the chef has cooked his pet rat.
  • There are intense moments when the rat is on the loose in the hotel, as well as one of the pieces of veal has rat poison on it (unknown to the customers ordering veal).

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